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On Wed, 20 May 1998, Barry Lustig wrote:

>   I'm seeing lots of these types of error messages cropping up:
> 
> 	yp_first: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
> 
> 	yp_next: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
> 
> 	yp_next: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
> 
> I'm running on a 2.2.6 stable system, CVSUP'ed from a few weeks ago with a  
> kernel from today.  Any ideas what might be up?

  The YP server is unreliable.  Most often caused by network problems, or
just an overloaded or down YP server.  I used to see this a lot, when
network problems causes a 3% packet loss between the client and server.

Tom


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